When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Location-based service - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service

   Location-based service (LBS) is a general term denoting software services which use geographic data and information to provide services or information to users. [1] LBS can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, indoor object search, [2] entertainment, [3] work, personal life, etc. [4] Commonly used examples of location-based services include navigation software, social networking ...

3. Real-time locating system - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_locating_system

   Current location-tracking technologies can be used to pinpoint users of mobile devices in several ways. First, service providers have access to network-based and handset-based technologies that can locate a phone for emergency purposes. Second, historical location can frequently be discerned from service provider records.

4. Indoor positioning system - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system

   An indoor location tracking map on a mobile phone. An indoor positioning system (IPS) is a network of devices used to locate people or objects where GPS and other satellite technologies lack precision or fail entirely, such as inside multistory buildings, airports, alleys, parking garages, and underground locations. [1]

5. Wi-Fi positioning system - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system

   Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS, WiPS or WFPS) is a geolocation system that uses the characteristics of nearby Wi‑Fi access points to discover where a device is located. [1]It is used where satellite navigation such as GPS is inadequate due to various causes including multipath and signal blockage indoors, or where acquiring a satellite fix would take too long. [2]

6. Internet geolocation - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_geolocation

   Geolocation on web-based social network services can be IP-based or use hotspot trilateration. For mobile social networks , texted location information or mobile phone tracking can enable location-based services to enrich social networking.

7. Mobile phone tracking - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking

   An indoor location tracking map on a mobile phone. Mobile phone tracking is a process for identifying the location of a mobile phone, whether stationary or moving. . Localization may be affected by a number of technologies, such as the multilateration of radio signals between (several) cell towers of the network and the phone or by simply